Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

"Who are you?" If you have heard the question, you know the direction. And theanswer can only be: "Return back. Follow that direction, move back."But your questions are false. You have not heard them; somebody else has taughtthem to you. Your questions are false, and then your answer becomes false. Youlearn the question from others, you learn the answer from others, and youremain phoney.The word 'phoney' comes from 'telephone'. Have you ever observed thatlistening to a man directly -- listening to your wife or husband or friend directly,face-to-face -- is a reality because personal contact is there, but listening to himon the phone everything becomes phoney? One never knows who is there --whether the person is really there or if it is a tape recorder, a dictaphone. Nobodyknows. And the sound seems to be coming not from the heart, but from themechanism.Have you sometimes watched people...? I have watched a few people, I know afew people, who will put their specs on whenever they phone. I was worried:"What is the matter? The person is not there, so who are you trying to see?" Just adeep urge to see the person. A deep urge -- otherwise the thing seems to bephoney. But this is how the mind has become corrupted.I went with a friend once to visit the Taj Mahal. He is a good photographer -- andhe had no time to see the Taj Mahal, he was seeing it through the camera lens. Itold him, "We have come here to see the Taj Mahal."He said, "Forget about it. It is so beautiful that I will take pictures and see them athome! " But those pictures are available everywhere -- what is the need to cometo the Taj Mahal? The direct vision is lost.Mulla Nasrudin's first child was born. I went to see him The Mulla was sittingwith the boy, a small boy -- beautiful. I said, "How beautiful! "He said, "This is nothing -- you should see the photagraphs!"Phoney.... Everything becomes more and more indirect. Then it loses the touch ofreality, the concreteness, the clarity. The it goes far away, far away.The answer can be true only if the question has bee really heard. Every day Icome across somebody or other who says, "I want to meditate, I want to search,but nothing happens." He is complaining as if existence has not beer just to him --"Nothing happens." But I look into his eyes his desire is phoney. In the first placehe never wanted to meditate, he has come as part of a crowd. Somebody els wascoming, a friend was coming, and he followed. Or ht had a holiday and hethought, "Let's go and see." Now nothing is happening.Nothing can happen because meditation, God and prayer are not questions oftechnique. You can learn the technique, bu nothing will happen unless thequestion has been heard first unless it has become a deep desire in you, for whichyou caL_ stake your life -- unless it has become a question of life and death,unless it penetrates to the very center of your being, unless it becomes a thorn inCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho